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The Brokopondo Reservoir, officially named Professor Doctor Ingenieur W. J. van Blommestein Meer, [1] and also called the Brokopondostuwmeer, is a large reservoir in Suriname. It is named after the Surakarta -born Dutch hydrological engineer Willem Johan van Blommestein [ nl ] .
Afobaka is a village in the Brokopondo District of Suriname. Between 1960 and 1964, the 1913 meter-long Afobaka Dam was built on the Suriname River, creating the Brokopondo Reservoir. [1] The Afobaka Airstrip is nearby.
Brokopondo is the capital town of the Brokopondo District, Suriname. [2] It is located on the west shore of the Suriname river, just north of the Afobaka dam, 105 kilometers (65 miles) south-east of Suriname capital city of Paramaribo. Brokopondo can be reached via the Avobakaweg from Paranam to Afobaka. [1]
Between Goddo and the confluence at the Brokopondo Reservoir, the following rapids (sulas) can be found, sometimes named after nearby villages: Toni, Bofokule, Dahome, Heikununu, Bia-ati, Vedubuka, Jin Jin, Apresina, and Bakaabooto. The Upper Suriname River has a watershed area of 16,500 square kilometers (it is not clear if this includes the ...
Brokopondo is a district of Suriname. Its capital city is Brokopondo ; other towns include Brownsweg and Kwakoegron . The district has a population of 15,909, and an area of 7,364 square kilometres.
Kwana Island (Dutch: Kwana Eiland [1]) is the name of an island in the southwestern part of Brokopondo Lake or Brokopondo Reservoir (Brokopondostuwmeer, also formerly known as Blommestein Lake or B. reservoir) in the District of Brokopondo [2] (Brokopondo-district) the second largest in the nation located east of their territory.
The Afobaka Dam is an embankment dam with a main gravity dam section on the Suriname River near Afobaka in Brokopondo District of Suriname.The primary purpose of the dam is to generate hydroelectric power and it supports a 180 MW power station.
The damming of the Suriname River would lead to the Brokopondo Reservoir, and flood the village of Ganzee. [5] With an estimated 1,200 people, Ganzee was the biggest village in the area. [ 1 ] In 1964, the villagers were transmigrated to Klaaskreek and Nieuw-Ganzee .